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There is no privacy on an iPhone. The software is controlled by Apple. You basically don't own your device. All the toggles and different modes are cute, but mean nothing to Apple. They are like the buttons at the pedestrian crossing: you can hit it to make yourself feel good, but they'll keep doing what they do regardless of you hitting it or not.
It's not what you want to hear, but it's the reality of it.
Moreover, resistance to this point, insisting you "don't want to be told" to use something else, is how you betray yourself.
As long as you have this attachment to iPhone, where the very notion of switching to anything else triggers this feeling of annoyance and causes you to pull back reflexively, then you've already surrendered.
Consumer lock-in like this is exactly why Apple, Google and Microsoft get away with so much shit. Learn to walk away and try other things. And that goes for everyone, regardless of what hardware or OS you use.